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(II) Captain Richard Brodhead, son of Daniel and Ann (Tye) Brodhead, born Marble- town, New York, 1666, died 1758; married, April 19, 1692, Magdalena Jansen, died 1701. Family records and tradition give no satisfactory account of this Richard Brodhead. It is known, how- ever, that he held a captain's commission in the Ulster county militia in 1728, and it is probable that he took some part in quelling the Indian up- risings about the time of Queen Anne's war. Richard and Magdalena Brodhead had a son :
- (III) Captain Daniel Brodhead, born Mar- bletown, April 20, 1693, died Bethlehem, Pennsyl- vania, July 22, 1753; married, September 19, 1719, Hester Wyngart, baptized March 14, 1697, daughter of Lieutenant Gerrit Lucas Wyngart and his wife Sarah Visscher, daughter of Har- man and Hester (Tjerkse) Visscher, son of Bastian. This Daniel Brodhead, who also was Captain Daniel, of rank the same as his father and grandfather, removed to Pennsylvania in 1737 and brought one thousand acres of land at Stroudsburg, and was proprietor of Brodhead manor, Northampton county. In Marbletown, New York, he had served first as private, then lieutenant, and later was promoted captain. In Pennsylvania he was justice of the peace in Bucks county, 1747-49. He died in Bethlehem while under treatment for some physical afflic- tion. This Daniel had been a merchant at Al- bany, New York, as early as 1726, and in 1730 was "licensed trader" among the Indians. In Pennsylvania he built the town of Dansbury, which was named for him. He united with the Moravian Church. Daniel and Hester (Wyn- gart) Brodhead had : I. Thomas Gaston, born 1723, died at sea. 2. Garret Lucas, born 1724. 3. Richard B., born 1726. 4. Ann Gaston, born October 1, 1727. 5. Charles, born Sep- tember 7, 1729. He was sent in 1755 with a mes- sage from the governor to the Indians of the Wy- oming valley, accompanied by Aaron Dupuy. In November, 1755, he visited the aged Shawanese chief, Paxinos, in the Valley, who urged him to secure the allegiance of the Valley Indians to
the English by presents. His message was sent to the governor and he empowered him to visit the Indians, but before he arrived Teedyuscung had attacked the Delaware country (see Penn- sylvania Colonial Records, VI, 751-4: VII, 326- 8), destroying the Brodhead's and Dupuy's plan- tation. 6. Garret (2d), born January 21, 1733, see forward. 7. Daniel, born October 17, 1736, died November 15, 1809, of whom later. 8. Luke, born 1737, died June 19, 1806. Luke Brodhead was another.of this family who is numbered among the heroes of the Revolution. He was an infant when his brother removed to Pennsyl- vania ; enlisted in the spring of 1776 as third lieutenant, First American rifle regiment. Colonel William Thompson commanding ; appointed sec- ond lieutenant October 24, 1776, Major Simon Williams' regiment ; wounded and taken prisoner at battle of Long Island; commissioned captain Sixth Pennsylvania regiment, under Colonel Ma- gaw, in Continental service ; retired from service, 1778, incapacitated by wounds ; married Elizabeth Harrison, of Bridesburg, Pennsylvania. One of his sons, Rev. John Brodhead, was an eminent Methodist divine.
(IV) Lieutenant Garret Brodhead, sixth child of Captain Daniel and Hester (Wyngart) Brodhead, born Marbletown, Ulster county, New York, January 31, 1733, died Stroudsburg, Penn- sylvania, 1840; married, March 15. 1759, Jane Davis. He enlisted in the New York Colonial troops as sergeant April.4. 1758 ; promoted lieut- enant Second regiment, Ulster county troops, 1760. He located in Smithfield township, North- ampton county, Pennsylvania, 1770-72, as he was taxed there in 1772, "Garret Brodhead, £7, IOS," and in 1785, £5, 4s, 8d for six hundred acres of land, five horses, seven cattle. He was in service on the frontier during the Revolution, and held a lieutenant's commission. Lieutenant Garret and Jane (Davis) Brodhead had children : I. John, born March 3, 1766, died September 5, 1821. 2. Daniel, died unmarried. 3. Rich- ard. born July 31, 1772, of whom later. 4. George, died unmarried. 5. Elizabeth, born 1775, died 1802; married Dr. Francis Joseph Smith. 6. Rachel born 1787, married David
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Dills. 7. Samuel, born 1779, married Hannah Shoemaker.
(IV) Brigadier General Daniel Brodhead, seventh child of Captain Daniel and Hester (Wyngart) Brodhead, born September 17, 1736, died November 15, 1809. He was one of the famous heroes of the Revolution. He was born probably at Albany, but, as his father made sev- eral changes in residence during his early mar- ried life, the place of Daniel's birth is uncertain. In 1737 he removed to Pennsylvania, settling at what is now East Stroudsburg, Monroe county, where Daniel grew up amid the wild surround- ings of the frontier of white settlement, and where, December II, 1755, he first met the In- dians in warfare, when they made a savage but unsuccessful attack on the Brodhead house and its hastily prepared defenses. In 1775 he re- moved to Reading, Pennsylvania, and was soon afterward appointed deputy surveyor under John Lukens, then surveyor-general of the province. In July. 1775. he was appointed delegate from Berks county to the provincial convention in Phil- adelphia, and early next year was appointed lieut- enant-colonel of a rifle regiment, and rendez- voused at Marcus Hook, with orders to support the American vessels on the Delaware in resist- ing the British attempt to attack Philadelphia by water. Later he was sent with his command to join the Continental forces in New York, and upon the capture of Colonel Miles, at Long Is- land, the command of the remnant of the battalion devolved upon Brodhead. He then went to his home on sick leave, and rejoined the army as colonel of the Eighth regiment. He made many important treaties with the Indians, transacted business with the heads of the federal and state governments, and proved himself in every respect one of the leading men of the day. On the re- organization of the army in 1781, he was made colonel of the First regiment, his commission dat- ing from September 29, 1776, and later date ap- pears to have been commissioned brigadier-gen- eral. He was elected to the assembly ; was ap- pointed surveyor-general of the state in 1789, serving in that capacity eleven years. He died in Milford, Pike county. He married (first)
Elizabeth Depui; two children : Daniel and Ann Gaston; (second) Rebecca, widow of General and Governor Thomas Mifflin.
(V) Richard Brodhead, third son of Lieut- enant Garret and Jane (Davis) Brodhead, born Stroudsburg, July 31, 1772, died Milford, Penn- sylvania, November 11, 1843; married, 1790, Hannah Drake, born November 15, 1769, died July 31, 1832, daughter of Captain Samuel Drake. Richard Brodhead was the first of his family in direct descent from the American an- cestor who did not lay claim to a military title or boast of prowess in the Indian wars or the Re- volution ; but this was because he was too young to bear arms during the latter contest. He was, however, an officer of the state militia during the second war with Great Britain. He has been de- scribed as "a man of splendid physique, over six feet tall, and of a stern and serious character." He was sheriff of Wayne county, 1798; member of the legislature, 1802-03 ; associate judge eleven years ; revenue collector for Wayne and Pike counties, 1812-15 ; postmaster seven years ; major Second battalion, Pennsylvania militia ; protho- notary Pike county, 1821 ; county commissioner, 1835-36, and county auditor. Richard and Han- nah (Drake) Brodhead had : I. Sarah, born 1791, married John Westbrook. 2. Garret B., Jr., born December 2, 1793, of whom later. 3. William, born 1795, married, February 6, 1816, Susan Coolbaugh. 4. Jane, born 1797, mar- ried Moses S. Brundage. 5. Albert Gallatin, born 1799, married Ellen Middaugh. 6. Anna Maria, born February 14, 1801, died March 14, 1868; married John Seaman. 7. Charles, born August 4, 1805, died September 5, 1831 ; married Mary Brown. 8. Rachel, born January 5, 1803 ; married Dr. John J. Linderman. 9. Rich- ard, born January 5, 1811, died September 17, 1863 ; married Mary Jane Bradford. IO. Eliza- beth, born 1814, died young. II. Elizabeth (2d), died in infancy.
(VI) Garret Brodhead, Jr., eldest son of Richard and Hannah (Drake) Brodhead, born December 2, 1793. died East Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, January 8, 1872 : married, Novem- ber 25, 1813, Cornelia Dingman, born October 3,
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1797, died June 18, 1883, daughter of Daniel W. and Mary (Westbrook) Dingman. Cornelia Dingman was the eldest of three children (Cor- nelia, Martinus and Andries) of Daniel W. Ding- man, born July 28, 1774, died 1862, and wife Mary Westbrook, born November 16, 1774, died 1852. Daniel W. Dingman was the elder of two children (Daniel \V. and Cornelia) of Andrew Dingman, born Wayne county, Pennsylvania, September 30, 1753, died Pike county, Pennsyl- vania, 1839, and wife Jane Westbrook, born April 9, 1755. Jane Westbrook, who married Andrew Dingman, was a daughter of Johannes Cornelis Westbrook and Maria Westbrook, and grand- daughter of Cornelis Westbrook and his wife, Antjen Roosa. Andrew Dingman was a son of Andrew Dingman, born Kinderhook, New Jer- sey, February II, 17II, and his wife Cornelia. The younger Andrew Dingman served as private, Sussex county, (New Jersey) militia, 1779-83, and was pensioned as such March 4, 1831. He was born at Dingman's Ferry, Pennsylvania, but lived in New Jersey during the Indian depreda- tions ; enlisted 1779 as private in Captain Peter Westbrook's company, Third battalion Sussex county (New Jersey) militia, and took part in en- gagement with the Indians, April 19, 1780. Mary Westbrook, wife of Daniel W. Dingman, was the daughter of Captain Martinus Westbrook, born May 24, 1754, died 1813, and wife Grietje Low, granddaughter of Abram and Maria (Helm) Westbrook; great-granddaughter of Johannes and Antjen (Roosa) Westbrook, who was a son of Johannes Westbrook and his wife, Magdalena Dekker, daughter of Jan Dekker, of Kingston, New York. Captain Martinus Westbrook came from Montague to Sandystone before the Revol- ution, and married at the age of eighteen. His father established him on a farm now owned by Miss Elizabeth Westbrook, in the western part of Sandystone.
Garret Brodhead, Jr., served as private in Captain Adam Hawks' Second brigade Pennsyl- vania militia in the war of 1812-15. He was a farmer in Pike county ; from 1850 until 1858 he held an important position in the civil administra- tion of the United States navy yard at Philadel-
phia. Garret Brodhead and his wife Cornelia Dingman had children: 1. Albert Gallatin, born August 3, 1815, died January 18, 1891 ; married, July 3, 1838, Sally Ann Tolan. 2. Daniel Ding- man, see forward. 3. Andrew Jackson, born May 6, 1822, of whom later. 4. Abram Cool- baugh, born August 6, 1824, died October, 1892; married, January 6, 1863, Cornelia M. Ely.
(VII) Daniel Dingman Brodhead, second son of Garret and Cornelia (Dingman) Brod- head, born September 6, 1818, married, May 6, 1847, Mary Ann Broderick. daughter of James Broderick and his wife, Elizabeth Dougherty, both from Londonderry, Ireland, but their child- ren were all born in America. Daniel D. Brod- head left the Delaware valley in 1841 and estab- lished himself in general merchandising at Mauch Chunk, in Carbon county, where the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company was beginning opera- tions and in which he had a share. In 1853 he removed to Philadelphia and founded the whole- sale boot and shoe honse of Brodhead & Roberts, and for twenty years was actively identified with mercantile interests in that city. In the mean- time his sons had grown up and gone into the coal regions of interior Pennsylvania, and when he retired from business in Philadelphia naturally he came to the locality where they were operat- ing, and where he died, June 3, 1905. Daniel D. and Mary Ann (Broderick) Brodhead had : I. Henry Conrad, born February 12, 1848, of whom later. 2. James Broderick, born August 2, 1850, died August 8, 1863. 3. Elizabeth Brod- erick, died in infancy. 4. Daniel Dingman, born December 4, 1855 : married, 1883, Leonora Hub- bard, and lives in Bayonne, New Jersey. 5. Major William Hall, born November 15, 1857, died June 7, 1895 : married December 4, 1894, Mary Van Tassel. 6. Robert Sayre, born February 7, 1861. married (first) Susan Amelia, daughter of Elijah and Jane Shoemaker, and ( second) Min- nie .Stafford, of Rome, Georgia. 7. Alice Davis, born September 10, 1864, died March 25. 1869. 8. Albert Gallatin, born June 14. 1867, of whom later. 9. Emily Linderman, born November II, 1870, married, June 5, 1895. Robert B. Honey- man, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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(VIII) Henry Conrad Brodhead, eldest son of Daniel Dingman Brodhead and his wife Mary Ann Broderick, born Mauch Chunk, Pennsyl- vania, February 12, 1848; married, December 4, 1894, Eva Wilder McGlasson, of Covington, Kentucky. Henry was educated in Philadel- phia. He graduated at the Philadelphia high school, A. B., and later A. M. He began his business career as civil engineer, later became a mining engineer, and was for several years in the employ of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company and afterward with the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company. Still later he be- gan operating in his own behalf, developing coal lands and organizing companies for mining oper- ations. His interests are largely in Colorado, at Brodhead, a town founded by him in the pro- gress of his enterprises.
(VIII) Albert Gallatin Brodhead, youngest son of Daniel' D. and Mary Ann ( Broderick) Brodhead, born June 14. 1867, was prepared for college at the Harry Hillman Academy in Wilkes-Barre, entered Harvard University, and graduated A. B., 1889. Shortly afterward he became attached to the engineering corps of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, with which he served until February, 1893. In October of the same year he and his brothers, Henry C. and Robert S. Brodhead, journeyed through Colorado, mak- ing careful investigation of its mineral resources. Having prospected coal lands in Las Animas county, they purchased two large tracts, one of four thousand acres at Brodhead, Colorado, and six hundred acres at Walsenburg, near the foot of the Spanish Peaks, which rise to an altitude of nearly fourteen thousand feet. The Brodheads have leased both their coal tracts, one to the Green Canon Coal Company, and the other to the Las Animas Coal Company. They market their output in South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Ex- pert authority has passed upon the quality of the coal, and grade it as semi-anthracite. It is distributed in six workable veins, and the quan- tity capable of being mined is estimated at mil- lions of tons. The Brodhead properties are held by an incorporated company, of which the officers
are: Henry C. Brodhead, president ; Robert S. Brodhead, vice-president ; and Albert G. Brod- head ,secretary and general manager, with the principal office in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Brod- head is a member of the University Club of Den- ver. He is a Republican in politics, and has often sat as a delegate in state conventions.
(VII) Andrew Jackson Brodhead, third son of Garret Brodhead and his wife Cornelia Dingman, born in Northampton (now Pike) county, Penn- sylvania, May 6, 1822, married, December 31, 1845. Ophelia Easton, born Milford, Pennsyl- vania, May 9, 1822, daughter of Calvin Easton, died December 12, 1826, and wife Charlotte New- man, born Milford, Pennsylvania, December 14, 1802, died Pike county, Pennsylvania, July 28, 1859. Calvin Easton was a son of Norman and Merab (Perry) Easton, a grandson of Col. James Easton, of East Hartford, Conn., and wife Eunice Pomeroy, and a descendant of the fifth generation of Joseph Easton, who was born in England, 1602, and died in Hartford, 1688. This Joseph had a son Joseph, who married Hannah Ensign, daughter of James Ensign, of Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, 1634-35 ; moved with Rev. Thomas Hooker to Hartford, Connecticut, and was con- stable there 1645-48-62, and an organizer of the second church in Hartford, 1669. Joseph and Hannah had a son Joseph Easton, who married Sarah Spencer, whose great-grandfather was Gerard Spencer, gent, of Stratford, England. Her grandfather was William Spencer, gent, born in England, 1601, of Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, 1631, and one of the first settlers of Hartford, 1636; selectman there, deputy to the general court of Massachusetts and Connecticut, appointed with others to prepare the first revision of the laws of Connecticut, and who also was one of the Honorable and Ancient Artillery of Bos- ton. Joseph Easton and his wife Sarah Spen- cer had a son Joseph who married Susannah Burnham, daughter of Richard Burnham, who- served in King Philip's war. 1675, and wife Sarah Humphries, and granddaughter of Thomas Burnham, a lawyer of Hartford, Connecticut, 1647-48, a large land owner in Windsor, Con- nectocut, and his wife Anna Wright. Joseph
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Easton and Susannah Burnham had a son James Easton, who married Eunice Pomeroy, who was daughter of John Pomeroy and his wife Rachel Sheldon. This James Easton was Colonel Eas- ton, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, who marched with his regiment to Canada and served from May 10, 1775, to December 30 following, and who also was colonel of a regiment of Berkshire county volunteers who marched to assist Gen- eral Stark in the battle of Bennington in Sep- tember, 1777. He was a valuable soldier to the Americans during the Revolution. Colonel James Easton and Eunice (Pomeroy) Easton, had a son, Norman Easton, who married Merab Perry, and their son Calvin and his wife Charlotte New- man were the parents of Ophelia Easton, who married Andrew Jackson Brodhead, of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania.
Andrew J. Brodhead received his early ed- ucation in the common schools of the town where his parents lived, and also at the Dingman Academy and attended one winter in the academic school at Stroudsburg. He taught school in 1848 or 1849. About 1836 he visited Mauch Chunk, went there to work in 1850, and moved his family there in 1851, by stage to Stroudsburg, thence to Brodheadsville, thence to Weissport, and thence to Mauch Chunk, that being the customary means and route of travel at that time. From 1851 to 1857 he was employed as clerk and bookkeeper, and afterward for about five years was engaged in business, with a partner, repairing coal cars for the old Beaver Meadow Company, the Lehigh Valley Company, the firm of Lewis Audenreid & Com- pany, and also for Packer, Lockhart & Company, who were among the pioneers of the coal ship- ping business in that region. About 1861 Mr. Brodhead began shipping coal, first for George K. Smith & Company, and afterward for other producers until 1877, when he opened a general store at Hickory Run, Pennsylvania, where he lived until the winter of 1883-84, and then re- turned to Mauch Chunk. He removed thence in 1884 to his present home in Flemington, New Jersey. Mr. Brodhead was treasurer of Carbon county, 1868 or 1869; was several years school
director in East Mauch Chunk ; and also served a short time as justice of the peace. Andrew J. and Ophelia ( Easton) Brodhead had :
I. Calvin Easton, born Pike county, Pennsyl- vania, December 27, 1846; married (first) De- cember 6, 1870, Laura Clewell Leisenring, born Mauch Chunk, August 9, 1848, daughter of Alexander William Leisenring and his wife Ann Ruddle. Three children : Anna Leisenring, born November 12, 1871; Emily Easton, born No- vember 3, 1872; Alexander William, born Janu- ary 1, 1874. Married (second) at Oakville, Canada, Mary Lewis, died March 31, 1905.
2. Garret, born Pike county, February II, 1848; married, September 17, 1872, Annie Kocher, born Mauch Chunk, August 28, 1849, daughter of Conrad Kocher and his wife Cath- arine Wasser. Seven children: Conrad Kocher and Andrew Jackson, both born July 19, 1873, (Andrew J. died May 3, 1876) ; Alonzo Blakes- lee, born Metuchen, New Jersey, December 26, 1875; Calvin Easton, and Laura Leisenring (twins), both born September 21, 1878: Ruth Randall, born Perth Amboy, New Jersey, March 7, 1884; Garret, born January 3, 1888.
3. John Romeyn, born Pike county, June II, 1849: married, November 13, 1882, Mary Martha Holbert, born Chemung, New York, March 22, 1858, daughter of Joshua Sayre Hol- bert and his wife Catharine Van Houten Rver- son. Two children: Henry Holbert, born Buf- falo, New York, September 29, 1883; Arthur Sayre, born Buffalo, November 26, 1886.
4. James Easton, born Pike county, Penn- sylvania, February 23, 1851 ; married, May I, 1877, Hattie Lochlin Boyd, born New York City, July II, 1852, daughter of Nathaniel Boyd and his wife Jane Curran. Four children : Walter, born Clinton, New Jersey, March 9, 1873: John Romeyn, born Clinton, New Jersey, September 25, 1880; Frederick Moon, born Flemington, New Jersey, July 31, 1883 ; Nathaniel Boyd, born Flemington, New Jersey, June 22, 1891.
5. Andrew Douglass, born Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. August 17, 1852: married Mar- garet Lewis Martin, born Perth Amboy, New Jersey, January 15, 1859, daughter of Moses
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Martin, and his wife Sarah Augusta Lewis. Four children : Edith Easton, born November 3, 1879, died March 29, 1882 ; Frank Martin, born Febru- ary 5, 1882; Lewis Dingman, born October 5, 1884; Andrew Jackson, born October 3, 1886.
6. Charlotte Elizabeth, born Mauch Chunk, December II, 1855, married, October 5, 1887, Franklin Clark Burk, born Flemington, New Jersey, April 8, 1853, son of Peter Wilson Burk and his wife Clarinda Bellis.
7. Jean Struthers, born Mauch Chunk, No- vember 21, 1857; married, October 15, 1885, Charles Ashley Blakeslee, born Mauch Chunk, July 4, 1859, son of James Irwin Blakeslee and his wife Caroline Jones Ashley. Two children : Gertrude Easton, born June 21, 1887; Ophelia Easton, born January 9, 1895.
8. Robert Packer, born East Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, October 12, 1865. See forward.
9. Emily Linderman, born East Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, June 1, 1862, married Frederick Moon, born September 30, 1851, son of Samuel Moon and his wife Matilda White. One child: Frederick Wiles Moon, born Dun- ellen, New Jersey, July 27, 1882.
IO. Richard Henry, born East Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1864; mar- ried, March 6, 1890, Jane Vanderveer Smock, born Marlboro, New Jersey, October 15, 1861, daughter of Daniel Polheim Smock and his wife Sarah Jane Smock. Four children: Estelle Smock, born Roper, North Carolina, November 26, 1890; Mary Ophelia, born Marlboro, New Jersey, April 2, 1892 ; Jean Blakeslee, born Marl- boro, New Jersey, July 3, 1893, died July 27, 1893 ; Richard Henry.
(VIII) Robert Packer Brodhead, eighth child of Andrew J. and Ophelia (Easton) Brodhead, born East Mauch Chunk, October 12, 1860, mar- ried, May 22, 1889, Fanny Vaughn Loveland, daughter of William and Lydia (Hurlbut) Love- land (see Loveland family). He was educated in the public schools of East Mauch Chunk, and Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, where he took a commercial course in 1879-80. He found em- ployment as clerk in a lumber business at Hick- ory Run, below White Haven. In the fall of
1882 he went to New York City, where he sold lumber, and in 1883 began railroad construc- tion work, taking charge of the Vosburg tunnel, which was completed in 1886. In the following year became junior partner in the contracting. firm of Brodhead & Hickey ( 1883-94), suc -- ceeded in the latter year by C. E. Brodhead & Brother ( 1894-98), and now the Brodhead Con- tracting Company, of which Robert P. Brodhead. is president. Since engaging in the contracting. business he has had charge of the following im- portant work: building part of the Lizard Creek branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad; a large portion of the Lehigh Valley Railroad in the state of New York, crossing the Genesee- river ; the Rochester branch of same railroad; a portion of the Mountain cut-off of the Lehigh Valley Railroad near Wilkes-Barre; the Wilkes -. Barre end of the Lackwanna and Wyoming Val- ley Railroad running from Wilkes-Barre to Scranton, and known as the Laurel Line; and rebuilt the Pittsburg & Bessemer Railroad. He also built the stockyards of the great Steel Com- pany at Youngstown, Ohio, and the Palisade- tunnel on the New York, Susquehanna & West- ern Railroad. His business activity is also wit- nessed in his relationship with various other im- portant corporations. He is treasurer of the- wholesale meat and oil company doing business in Wilkes-Barre under the style of Paine & Com- pany, limited; vice-president and a director in the Kingston Deposit and Savings Bank; a di- rector in the Wilkes-Barre Deposit and Savings Bank; and is also engaged in extensive lumber operations in Kentucky. Robert Packer and Fannie V. (Loveland) Brodhead had seven chil- dren: I. Robert Packer, born Kingston, Penn -- sylvania, April 11, 1890, died April 10, 1900. 2. William Loveland, born Caledonia, New York,_ June 10 1891. 3. Lydia Hurlbut, born Geneva, New York, June II, 1893. 4. Mary Buckingham, born Kingston, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1895. 5. Frances Loveland, born Kingston, Pennsyl- vania, October 16, 1896. 6. James Easton, born Kingston, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1899 .. 7. Charles, born February 13, 1906.
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